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To: Jim Robinson
"Is Free Republic too "Republican?" I've been receiving a lot of complaints lately that FR is not really conservative, it's Republican. Is that a bad thing?"

To the extent that Republican supporters are allowed to take insulting excesses with Republican detractors here on FR, even if in violation of FR's rules, and even when a fair-handed review of the topic in question would find the Republicans lacking, yes, FreeRepublic is too Republican.

Also, if I started a website that said it was created to prevent the killing of tree frogs, and spent the first couple of years decrying all who killed tree frogs, that would make sense.

But, if I then over the years began supporting companies and people who killed fewer tree frogs than others, I would have turned my back on my original mission statement. I would be being unfaithful to the principles which I once held dear.

Moreover, to claim to be against Government corruption and largesse, and to then back one half of the most corrupt, pork-strewn bunch of anti-Constitutional criminals in this nation's history, and to do so under the banner (guise?) of "conservatism..."?

That's either blatant hypocrisy, profound ignorance, or both.

That the Republicans appear, in this fungal stage of America's conservative decay, to be more "conservative" than the Democrats is just a symptom of the disease that is killing this country, and neither I, nor you, nor FreeRepublic, is doing anythig to stop it.

;-/

204 posted on 06/13/2003 7:54:42 AM PDT by Gargantua (Embrace clarity.)
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